77 BC
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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| Centuries: | 2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century |
| Decades: | 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC – 70s BC – 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC |
| Years: | 80 BC 79 BC 78 BC – 77 BC – 76 BC 75 BC 74 BC |
| 77 BC by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 77 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 677 |
| Ancient Egypt era | XXXIII dynasty, 247 |
| - Pharaoh | Ptolemy XII Auletes, 4 |
| Ancient Greek era | 175th Olympiad, year 4 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4674 |
| Bengali calendar | −669 |
| Berber calendar | 874 |
| Buddhist calendar | 468 |
| Burmese calendar | −714 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5432–5433 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2620 or 2560 — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2621 or 2561 |
| Coptic calendar | −360 – −359 |
| Discordian calendar | 1090 |
| Ethiopian calendar | −84 – −83 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3684–3685 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | −20 – −19 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3025–3026 |
| Holocene calendar | 9924 |
| Iranian calendar | 698 BP – 697 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 719 BH – 718 BH |
| Julian calendar | N/A |
| Korean calendar | 2257 |
| Minguo calendar | 1988 before ROC 民前1988年 |
| Seleucid era | 235/236 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 466–467 |
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Year 77 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Brutus and Lepidus (or, less frequently, year 677 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 77 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Roman Republic
- Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Roman consul and leader of the democratic party, is defeated by Quintus Lutatius Catulus outside Rome. The remnants of the rebels are wiped out by Gnaeus Pompeius in Etruria.
- Lepidus, with some 21,000 troops, manages to escape to Sardinia. Soon afterwards he becomes ill and dies, his battered army, now under command by Marcus Perperna, sails on to the Iberian Peninsula.[1]
- Pompeius marches along the Via Domitia through Gallia Narbonensis crossing the Pyrenees to Spain. He joints with Quintus Metellus Pius to suppress the revolt of Quintus Sertorius, but is first unsuccessful.
Armenia
- The city of Tigranakert of Artsakh is built.
Births
- Liu Xiang, Chinese scholar, editor of the Shan Hai Jing, compilator of the Lienü zhuan, and father of Liu Xin (d. 6 BC)
Deaths
- Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Roman statesman and consul (b. 120 BC)
- Vattagamani Abhaya, king of Sri Lanka
References
- ↑ Pompey, Command (p. 12). Nic Fields, 2012. ISBN 978-1-84908-572-4